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>   For enum types (described in <A
HREF="datatype-enum.html"
>Section 8.7</A
>),
   there are several functions that allow cleaner programming without
   hard-coding particular values of an enum type.
   These are listed in <A
HREF="functions-enum.html#FUNCTIONS-ENUM-TABLE"
>Table 9-29</A
>. The examples
   assume an enum type created as:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE TYPE rainbow AS ENUM ('red', 'orange', 'yellow', 'green', 'blue', 'purple');</PRE
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>Table 9-29. Enum Support Functions</B
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>         
         <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_first(anyenum)</TT
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>Returns the first value of the input enum type</TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_first(null::rainbow)</TT
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>red</TT
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>         
         <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_last(anyenum)</TT
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>Returns the last value of the input enum type</TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_last(null::rainbow)</TT
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>purple</TT
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>         
         <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_range(anyenum)</TT
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>Returns all values of the input enum type in an ordered array</TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_range(null::rainbow)</TT
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>{red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple}</TT
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_range(anyenum, anyenum)</TT
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>        Returns the range between the two given enum values, as an ordered
        array. The values must be from the same enum type. If the first
        parameter is null, the result will start with the first value of
        the enum type.
        If the second parameter is null, the result will end with the last
        value of the enum type.
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>enum_range('orange'::rainbow, 'green'::rainbow)</TT
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>{orange,yellow,green}</TT
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>enum_range(NULL, 'green'::rainbow)</TT
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>{red,orange,yellow,green}</TT
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>enum_range('orange'::rainbow, NULL)</TT
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>{orange,yellow,green,blue,purple}</TT
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>    Notice that except for the two-argument form of <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>enum_range</CODE
>,
    these functions disregard the specific value passed to them; they care
    only about its declared data type.  Either null or a specific value of
    the type can be passed, with the same result.  It is more common to
    apply these functions to a table column or function argument than to
    a hardwired type name as suggested by the examples.
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